In North Carolina, alcoholic beverages are sold at approximately 17,500 licensed retail businesses.
Liquor is sold in North Carolina through state-licensed ABC stores.
Private citizens may purchase alcohol directly from an ABC store for their personal consumption,.
Establishments with a mixed drink permit from the Alcoholic Beverage Commission may purchase alcohol to be sold to the public in the form of mixed drinks.
While grocery stores, convenience stores and other types of establishments can obtain a permit to sell wine or beer to the public, only private clubs, sports clubs and restaurants can sell mixed beverages containing spirituous liquor.
Of the 157 local ABC boards, only 25 have an enforcement section.
Every county receives five percent of the sales from the ABC stores in that county to be used for alcohol law enforcement. This money is either given to the local law enforcement agencies to be used specifically for alcohol law enforcement, or it is used to employ local ABC agents.
It is illegal for any person under the age of 21 to purchase or possess malt beverages, unfortified or fortified wine, spirituous liquor, or mixed beverages.
It is illegal for any person, regardless of age, to aid or abet another in the unlawful sale, purchase, or possession of the aforementioned beverages or to fraudulently use identification in obtaining or attempting to attain alcoholic beverages.
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